“To kill and fight Americans and their allies, whether civilians or military, is an obligation for every Muslim who is able to do so in any country”
— Osama bin Laden, Feb 23, 1998

“I predict a black day for the United States, a day after which the United States will not be the same as we know it. You will see many Ramzi Yousefs come to your country and carry out such acts.”
— Osama bin Laden, 1998

“Bin Laden’s been very clear. His message has been a defensive message, that what we want is the Americans out of the Middle East as far as we can push them so we can take care of the real enemies, which are apostate governments – the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Algerians and the Israelis. I don’t think the American people have a good idea of what a long and bloody road this is going to be.”
— Michael Scheuer former Central Intelligence Agency senior intelligence analyst

“The fact is that the FBI from 1998 onward, had several of its own people saying that there was a very real, very specific threat involving Middle Eastern men in U.S. flight schools.”
— Bob Graham former senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee